Red Schoendienst (Albert Fred Schoendienst) Quotes
I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'
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I was born in Burnsville, Minnesota, and raised in Eagan, which is right by Burnsville. I've been in that area my whole life.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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I choose to express myself.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
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Real people - the interesting ones, anyway - don't remain static, and neither do the ones I write about. Changes take place, and they react to them.
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I have a love for boxing.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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I'm a selfish person, and I'm going onstage to have a good time, and I'd love if you want to be a part of it. So if people don't get it, they're wrong. I think they're wrong, and I think they either don't want to have a good time or they just don't like my style.
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My father was a screenwriter, and I kind of grew up in that world. I always had a mind for characters and dialogue, and my head was filled with that stuff, so it seemed like a good place to start.
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I know what paranoia is like. I know what it is like to worry about what people are saying about you and become obsessed with what people are saying about you.
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I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.
